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Been listening to a bit of Ska recently and wondered if anybody had any good recomendations?
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what about ben folds five? not completely ska but worth downloading a couple of songs.
also, in the same sort of line you could try less than jake too.
I love you. In a non-Mist way mind.
Good ska? Millie Small is good. :rolleyes:
i do...
mad caddies
less than jake
reel big fish
face first
suburban ledgends
catch 22
jesse james
captain everything
spunge
They are more ska/punk I was thinking he ment more like Bad manners/The Specials/Sublime
But if not yup them bands cheesey stick said.
This isn't ska.
This is.
Seriously, get your genres right people :rolleyes:
I did.
However I already have plenty of Bad Manners and The Specials. I may have to have a listen to some Sublime then.
That's not ska. Ska is like a fast reggae, with a backbeat, comes from Jamaica, most ska was recorded in the 1960's.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/features/reggae/history_ska.shtm
That's not ska either, that's 2-Tone.
Don't post on the boards very often but couldn't help joining in on a thread so close to my heart! My name's Jean-Paul and I work for Youthnet by day - but by night I am a DJ specialising in Soul, Funk, Jazz, Blues, Rock 'n' Roll, Reggae and particularly SKA!
Ska music was born around 1960 in Jamaica and it's beat was derived from New Orleans Rhythm & Blues which was very popular on the island. They listened to records by Fats Domino and Rosco Gordon - which are almost proto-ska. By the late 60s Ska had slowed down and turned into rocksteady and by 1968 the rhythm had changed and become reggae.
That would have probably been the end of the story - but ska refused to die! In the late 70s and early 80s in the UK bands like Madness, The Specials, The Beat and Bad Manners revived ska but played it in a more punky sounding way. This "ska revival" was also called Two Tone after one of the record labels championing it.
Though Two Tone is pretty good it's nowhere near as good as the original ska music. Most good two tone songs are just covers of 60s ska tunes - the originals being better in all cases!
For example "One Step Beyond" and "Madness" were originally recorded by Prince Buster. And "Guns Of Navarone" was originally recorded by The Skatalites.
In more recent years there has been another ska revival - this time much more punky than even Two Tone. This is more properly called Ska-Punk and also includes a style called Ska-core. Bands that play or have played in this style include Rancid, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Farse and Strike Of 59 (which one of thesite board moderators plays in! We're big on ska here at Youthnet!!)
But back to my speciality - original ska. Some of the best artists are: The Skatalites, Prince Buster, The Wailers and Laurel Aitken. All of these and more have CDs available to buy from any good HMV or Virgin. A lot of the stuff is reissued by Trojan records.
For a Top 10 Ska list including recommended CDs check out this page on my website:
http://uk.geocities.com/esecular/Artists.htm
And for some good ska clubs to visit in London see this page:
http://uk.geocities.com/esecular/Clubs.htm
If anyone has any other questions feel free to email me at:
paul@right-on.org
Hope this has helped!
Jean-Paul
www.right-on.org
www.londondossier.com
And if you like ska-punk, look no further than Culture Shock.
Peace
Two Tone-wise:
The Selector
Madness
The Beat (you can still catch these bands live not always original line-ups though).
"Lip up fatty aye lip up fatty fatty reggae" wah wah wah wah wah wah
And The Specials.
That's 2-Tone, not ska!
I can see and understand your point but as you probably know, 2-Tone evolved from ska and in the late 80's we started to see ska-punk emerge (Operation Ivy, Citizen Fish etc) .
Both 2-Tone and Ska-punk (although not strictly pure, original ska) still maintain the feel and ideas that 60's ska invented, therefore I don't think its a crime to refer to these 2 genres as 'ska'. Look how many genres fit into the word 'Jazz', for example...
I do agree that it does frustrate when you have a huge number of young people massively into bands such as Less Than Jake, but have never heard of The Skatalites.
There are lots of original bands around today that try to emulate an authentic original ska sound, such as Hepcat - Who are well worth checking out.